50.23. 18. 19. r Ruth 1. 22. $ Cp. Deut. 21. 23. p Cp. Gen. Pshe bare to Adriel the son of Bar9 Cp. 1 Sam. Zillai the Meholathite: and he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the mountain before the LORD, and they fell all seven together and they were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, at the beginning of barley harvest. 10 And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water was poured upon them from heaven; and she suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night. 11 And it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done. 12 And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of t1 Sam. 31. Jabesh-gilead, which had stolen them from the 1street of "BethCp. ch. 2. 4. u Josh. 17. shan, where the Philistines had 11. hanged them, in the day that the Philistines slew Saul in Gilboa: 13 and he brought up from thence the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son; and they gathered the bones of them that were hanged. 14 And they buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the country of Benjamin in "Zela, in the sepulchre of Kish his father and they performed all that the king commanded. And after ch. 24. 25. that God was intreated for the land. 10-13. Josh. 18. 28. 22. 15 And the Philistines had war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines: and David waxed faint. 16 And Ishbi-benob, which was of the sons r ver. 18, 20, of the 2 giant, the weight of whose spear was three hundred shekels of brass in weight, he being girded with a new sword, thought to have slain David. 17 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah succoured him, and smote the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David sware unto him, saying, Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle, that 2 Chr. 21.7. thou quench not the lamp of * Cp. ch. 18. 3. 2 ch. 22. 29. 1 Kin. 11. & 15. 4. 2 Kin. 8. 19. Ps. 132. 17. a For ver. 18-22. see 1 Chr. 20.4-8. Israel. 18 And it came to pass after this, that there was again war with e 29 27.11. ceh. 23. 27. 20, 22. d ver. 16, 1 Sam. 17.7. 1 Chr. 20. 5. the Philistines at Gob: then 'Sib- 1 Chr. 11. becai the Hushathite slew Saph, which was of the sons of the 2 giant. 19 And there was again war with the Philistines at Gob; and Elhanan the son of Jaare- eCp. ch. 23. oregim the Beth-lehemite slew Go- 24. liath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam. 20 And there was again war at Gath, where was a man of great stature, that had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was born to the 2 giant. 21 And when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of 8 Shimei David's brother slew him. 22 These four were born to the 2 giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants. i ver. 16, 18. 1 Sam. 17. 10, 25, 26, 36, 45. Cp. Ex. & 1 Chr. 15. 1 & Judg. 5.1 16. 7. I And David spake unto 22 the LORD the words of this song in the day that the LORD delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul: 2and he said, *The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer, 2-50. even mine; j For ver. * Deut.2.4. Ps. 31. 3 & 71.3 & 91. 2 & 144. 2. 1 ver. 92, 47. m Cited "My shield, and the horn of my salvation, my Phigh tower, Heb. 2. 13. and my refuge; My saviour, thou savest me from violence. I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: So shall I be saved from mine For the waves of death com- The floods of ungodliness made 6 The cords of Sheol were round about me: 7 The snares of death came upon me. n ver. 31. Gen. 15. 1. o Luke 1.69. p Ps. 9. 9 & 59. 9, 16, & 62.2, 6. Cp. Prov. P. 14. 6 & 46. 7, 11 Chr. 18. 25. & 96.4. s Cp. Ps. & 93. 4 t Ps. 116. 3. Cp. Gen. "In my distress I called upon the 37.35 LORD, Yea, I called unto my God: And my cry" came into his ears. (mg.). u Ps. 116. 4 & 120, 1. Jonah 2. 2. v Ps. 18. 6. 8 Then the earth shook and trem- Judg. 5.4. Ps. 77. 18 & 97. 4. The foundations of heaven Cp. Job 26. moved And were shaken, because he was wroth. 1 Or, broad place 2 Heb. Raphah. 3 Or, new armour 4 In 1 Chr. 20. 4, Gezer. 5 In 1 Chr. 20. 4. Sippai. 6 In 1 Chr. 20. 5, the brother of Goliath. 7 Or, reproached 8 in 1 Sam. 16. 9, Shammah in 1 Chr. 2. 13, 20. 7, Shimea. 9 Heb. Belial. 11. 9 There went up a smoke 1out of And fire out of his mouth de- "Coals were kindled by it. And thick darkness was under 11 And he rode upon a cherub, and Yea, he was seen upon the d Job 36. 29. 12 And he made darkness pavil e ver. 9. f Job 37. 4. P. 29. 3. Isai. 30. 30, al. P. 7. 13 ions round about him, Gathering of waters, thick clouds 13 At the brightness before him 14 The LORD thundered from And the Most High uttered his 9 Deut. 32. 21. & 77. 17 & 144. 6. Hab. 3. 11. 16 Then the channels of the sea But thine eyes are upon the For thou art my lamp, O LORD: 5.7. r Cp. Ps. 72. 12, 13. Cp. Isai. 2. & Luke 1. 11, 12, 17 51. The foundations of the world 31 As for God, "his way is perfect: Deut.32.4. appeared, were laid bare, By the rebuke of the LORD, 34 * He maketh his feet like hinds' z See ch. feet: 35 And setteth me "upon my high He teacheth my hands to war; 36 Thou hast also given me the 37 8 And thy gentleness hath made me great. 2. 18. a Deut. 32. 13 & 33. 29. Isai. 58. 14. b Ps. 144. 1. Thou hast enlarged my steps e Prov. 4.12 under me, And my feet have not slipped. Neither did I turn again till they 39 And I have consumed them, and So Ps. 18. 26. The text has, unsavoury. 4 Or, whom thon will 5 Or, through 6 Or, setteth free According to another reading, guideth my way in perfectness. 7 Another reading is, my. 8 Or, condescension 9 Heb. ankles. 1 Deut. 33. (mg. for m Mic. 7. 17. n ver. 3, 32. o Deut. 32. 15. Ps. 89. 26 p Ps. 144. 2. ? Ps. 140. 1. r Cited Rom. 15. 9. the dust of the earth, I did stamp them as the mire of the streets, and did spread them abroad. 44 Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my people; Thou hast kept me to be the head of the nations: A people whom I have not known shall serve me. 45 The strangers 'shall themselves unto me: submit As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me. 46 The strangers shall fade away, And shall come trembling mout of their close places. 47 The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; And exalted be "the God of " the rock of my salvation: 48 Even the God that executeth vengeance for me, And bringeth down peoples under me, 49 And that bringeth me forth from mine enemies: Yea, thou liftest me up above them that rise up against me: Thou deliverest me from the violent man. 50 Therefore I will give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the nations, And will sing praises unto thy name. 8 These be the names of the mighty men whom David had: 14 d Josheb-basshebeth a Tahchemonite, chief of the captains; the 27.2, 3. same was Adino the Eznite, against eight hundred slain at one time. 9 And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodai the son of an Aho- el Chr. 27.4. hite, one of the three mighty men f ver. 28. with David, when they defied the Philistines that were there gathered e 1 Heb. caused to bow. 2 Or, wilt keep 3 Or, yield feigned obedience Heb. lie. 4 So Ps. 18. 45. The text has, gird themselves. 5 Another reading is, He is a tower of deliverance. 6 Heb. salvations. 7 Heb. pleasant in the psalms of Israel. 8 Or, in 9 Or, There shall be one... and it shall be as &c. 10 Heb. a righteous one. 11 Or, For is not my house so with God? for he... for all my salvation, and all my desire, will he not make it to grow! 12 Heb. Belial, that is, worthlessness. 13 Heb. filled. 14 The verse is probably corrupt. See 1 Chr. 11. 11. g ver. 33. A See 1 Sam. 22.1. iSee ch. 5. 1 Sam. 22. 18. 4. 3. Cp. 1 Sam. 13. 23. : together to battle, and the men of Israel 1 were gone away: 10 he arose, and smote the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand clave unto the sword: and the LORD wrought a great 2 victory that day; and the people returned after him only to spoil. 11 And after him was Shammah the son of Agee a Hararite. And the Philistines were gathered together 3 into a troop, where was a plot of ground full of lentils; and the people fled from the Philistines. 12 But he stood in the midst of the plot, and defended it, and slew the Philistines and the LORD wrought a great 2 victory. 13 And three of the thirty chief went down, and came to David in the harvest time unto the cave of Adullam; and the troop of the Philistines were encamped in the valley of Rephaim. 14 And David was then in the hold, and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Beth-lehem. 15 And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me water to drink of the well of Beth-lehem, which is by the gate! 16 And the three mighty men brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: but he would not drink thereof, but poured it out unto the LORD. 17 And he said, Be it far from me, O LORD, that I should do this: shall I drink the blood of the men that went in jeopardy of their lives? therefore he would not drink it. These things did the three mighty men. 18 And Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief of the three. And he lifted up his spear against three hundred and slew them, and had a name among the three. 19 Was he not most honourable of the three? therefore he was made their captain: how beit he attained not 1 Chr. 11. unto the first three. 20 And "Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done mighty deeds, he slew the two sons of Ariel of Moab: he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow: 21 and he slew an Egyptian, 1 Heb. went up. 2 Heb. salvation. 6 According to another reading, Ish-hai. armourbearer, 1 Cp. Lev. 17. 10. 21. n ch. 8. 18 & 20. 23. • Josh. 15. 21. a goodly man: and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own spear. 22 These things did " Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had a name among the three mighty men. 23 He was more honourable than the thirty, but he attained not to the first three. And David set him over his 7 guard. 2 1 Chr. 27. 7. 11. 27 7 Cp. 1 Chr. 27.8. See r ch. 14. 2. s Josh. 21. 24 Asahel the brother of Joab poh. 2. 18. was one of the thirty; Elhanan the son of Dodo of Beth-lehem ; 25 Shammah the Harodite, Elika the Harodite; 26 Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite; 27 Abiezer the Anathothite, Mebunnai the Hushathite; 28 Zalmon "the Ahohite, Maharai the "Netophathite; 29 Heleb the son of Baanah the " Netophathite, Ittai the son of Ribai of " Gibeah of the children of Benjamin; 30 Benaiah * a Pirathonite, Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash; 31 Abi-albon the Arbathite, Azmaveth the Barhumite; 32 Eliahba the Shaalbonite, the sons of Jashen, Jonathan; 33" Shammah the Hararite, Ahiam the son of Sharar the Ararite; 34 Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai, the son of the Maacathite, Eliam the son of Ahithophel the Gilonite; 35 8 Hezro the Carmelite, Paarai the Arbite; 36 Igal the son of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite; 37 Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Beerothite, armourbearers to Joab the son of Zeruiah; 38 Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite; 39 Uriah the Hittite: thirty and seven in all. с 1* And again the anger of 24 the LORD was kindled against Josh. 24. 30. Judg. 2. 9. Cp. ch. 3. 16. Israel, and he moved David against them, saying, "Go, number Israel and Judah. 2 And the king said to Joab the captain of the host, which was with him, Go now to and fro through all the tribes of Israel, "from Dan even to Beer-sheba, and n ver. 15. number ye the people, that I may know the sum of the people. 3 And Joab said unto the king, Now the oDeut. 1.11. LORD thy God add unto the people, how many soever they be, an hundred fold, and may the eyes of my lord the king see it: but why p Deut. 2. 36. Josh. 13. 9, 16. q Cp. Num. 13. 23. r Num. 21. 82 & 32. 1, 3, s Josh. 19. 47 ? Judg. 18. 297 t Josh. 19. 28. Judg. 18. 28. Cp. Josh. 19.29 & mg. Josh. 11.3. Judg. 3. 3. 1 Sam. 24. 5. z See 1 Sam. 13. 13. a See 1 Sam. b See 1 Sam. 22.5. 9.9. doth my lord the king delight in 23 a 10 And David's heart smote him after that he had numbered the people. And David said unto the y ch. 12. 18. LORD, I have sinned greatly in that I have done: but now, O LORD, put away, I beseech thee, the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly. 11 And when David rose up in the morning, the word of the LORD came unto the prophet Gad, David's 'seer, saying, 12 Go and speak_unto David, Thus saith the LORD, I offer thee three things; choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee. 13 So Gad came to David, and told him, and said unto eCp. 1 Chr. him, Shall seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thy foes while they pursue thee? or shall there be three days' pestilence in thy land? now advise thee, and consider what answer I shall return to him that sent me. 14 And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of the LORD; for his mercies are great: and let me not fall into the hand of man. 15 So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning 21. 12. d Ps. 110. 156. 1 Chr. 27. 24. 1 Or, toward 2 Or, lay upon 8 3 Or, many there died of the people from Dan ƒ ver. 2. even to the time appointed: and even to Beer-sheba seventy thousand men. stretched out his hand toward Jeru16 And when the angel 92 Kin. 19. salem to destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to ple, It is enough; now stay thine the angel that destroyed the peohand. And the angel of the LORD was by the threshing-floor of 4 Arauspake unto the LORD when he saw & nah the Jebusite. 17 And David Jonah 3.10. the angel that smote the people, and jCp. 2 Chr. said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done perversely: but these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my father's house. k 1 Sam. 15. Joel 2. 13, 14. David, and said unto him, Go up, 18 And Gad came that day to rear an altar unto the LORD in Jebusite. 19 And David went up the threshing-floor of Araunah the according to the saying of Gad, as the LORD commanded. king and his servants 5 coming on Araunah looked forth, and saw the 20 And toward him: and Araunah went king with his face to the ground. out, and bowed himself before the my lord the king come to his ser21 And Araunah said, Wherefore is vant? And David said, To buy the threshing-floor of thee, to build an altar unto the LORD, that the plague may be stayed from the people. & Num. 16. 22 And Araunah said unto David, 48, 50. Let my lord the king take and offer up what seemeth good unto him: behold, the oxen for the burnt offer ing, and the 'threshing instruments and the furniture of the oxen for 21. the wood: 23 all this, O king, doth Araunah give unto the king. And Araunah said unto the king, The LORD thy God accept thee. 24 And the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will verily buy it of thee at a price: neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the LORD my God which cost me nothing. So David bought the threshing-floor and the 25 And David built there an altar oxen for fifty shekels of silver. unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. "So n ch. 21. 14. the LORD was intreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel. 4 Or, Ornah In 1 Chr. 21. 15, Ornan. 6 Or, all this did Araunah the king give &c. |